Texas Governor Rick Perry has appointed A. W. “Whit” Riter III of Tyler (TX) chairman of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).
Does this have repercussions for the attempt by the Institute for Creation Research to get accreditation for its distance education masters degree program for certification for “science education” teachers?
Category Archives: Higher Education
TX Gov names (fundamentalist?) Chair of Higher Education board
November 16, 2008 – 10:40 pm
U.C. wins ACSI case
August 12, 2008 – 3:48 pm
In a decision dated August 8, 2008, a federal district court in California has thrown out a lawsuit brought by the Association of Christian Schools International against the University of California, in which the ACSI argued that the University’s refusal to approve some of the Christian schools’ courses violated First Amendment guarantees to freedom of [...]
TX GOP 2008 platform on Education
June 22, 2008 – 11:51 am
The Republican Party of Texas has now posted its State Party Platform for 2008.
I have also excerpted and posted here the four pages of that platform with the Preamble, Principles, and positions on Education.
As usual the Texas GOP takes interesting positions on many things, but in this post I’ll just quote their statement on “theories [...]
Brownback’s anti-humanzee legislation
May 5, 2008 – 5:22 pm
In Ligers, Tigons, and Zonkeys, Oh My!, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council writes:
Over the past few years, plenty of animal hybrids have been coaxed into existence, including wholphins (whale and dolphin), lepjags (leopard and jaguar), and a pizzly (polar and grizzly bear). We are quickly approaching a threshold of irresponsibility that is [...]
Texas decision on creationist masters degree postponed
January 16, 2008 – 1:38 pm
What is at stake here is not only whether this Creationist program will confer graduate degrees sanctioned by the State of Texas, but whether Texas will be interpreting its approval criteria in such a way that Texas accreditation can no longer serve as a basis for Science Teacher credentials, or for the NCLB requirement for a teacher in every classroom who is “Highly Qualified” in the specific subject they are teaching.
Creationist degree for science teachers: Trouble for Texas under NCLB?
January 12, 2008 – 9:43 pm
Would Texas state approval of the creationists’ masters degree program in “Science Education” jeopardize its satisfaction of the NCLB requirement for a “Highly Qualified Teacher” in every classroom, and its reciprocity arrangements for teacher qualification in other states?
more on Creation Institute’s “science education” masters degree
January 12, 2008 – 6:43 pm
To get a good overview of the Creation Institute’s “Master’s Degree Program in Science Education” without clicking through the pages on their site, you can visit Ed Darrell’s blog at http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/creationism-school-wants-to-offer-masters-degrees/
rich source on TX & creationist institute’s science education masters degree
January 9, 2008 – 5:08 pm
A rich source of materials on these matters is provided by TEXAS CITIZENS FOR SCIENCE.
TX Bd Jan April 24 to consider creationists’ Science Education masters program
January 4, 2008 – 12:43 pm
note: decision has been postponed from the January to the April meeting.
As reported here, an advisory council to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has recommended state approval for accreditation of a masters degree program in science education to be offered by the Institute for Creation Research.
Today, the Austin American-Statesman is reporting that the Texas [...]
Science Ed master’s degree from “creation science” institute?
December 17, 2007 – 12:08 pm
Inside Higher Ed reports that the Institute for Creation Research is seeking approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer an online masters degree in science education, and that the Texas Board’s decision might be complicated by as state supreme court ruling that warned the board against applying secular values in the accreditation [...]
teaching literature at West Point
December 16, 2007 – 1:08 pm
Elizabeth Samet talked about her book Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Elizabeth Samet, English professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point details the ways she teaches literature to her students who are going to war.
Colbert WØRD: “Heated Debate”
May 16, 2007 – 12:21 pm
Stephen Colbert says: “College students should be unformed lumps of clay fixed in the kiln of unchallenged thoughts.”
Click here, or on the image below, for the Colbert video at the Comedy Central website. (The image was originally linked to the Cavuto interview on YouTube; but apparently FOX has had that YouTube video removed.)
As reported by [...]
The First Year Grad Student’s Dictionary of Educational Terms
October 21, 2006 – 7:16 pm
Here is the current version of an online dictionary for first-year graduate students in education. It is developing continuously, since it is maintained on a wiki page that anyone can join in and make additions, revisions, or whatever.
ISI & the “civics crisis”
October 6, 2006 – 12:46 am
Is there bias in the newly-released Coming Crisis in Citizenship report, reflecting a possible conservative orientations of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)? These questions have been raised in a thread of an email list for professors of social studies education.
YAF’s “Battleplan” for Conservative Campus Activism
September 8, 2006 – 7:22 pm
added June 26, 2008: I see now that the post I was reporting here, and linked below, has disappeared.
The YAF page is now at http://yaf.org/students/activists/battleplan/index.cfm . As of now, it says
The 2008-2009 Campus Conservative Battleplan will be released soon.
Please check back for availability.
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Coming soon to a campus near you …
New Guide Offers Students Ways [...]
